Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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The Salesman | Blu-ray Review

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Nicholas Bell - May 2, 2017

Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman was his second film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film (following 2012’s A Separation),...

The Circle | Review

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Nicholas Bell - April 28, 2017

Like a Record Round: Ponsoldt Spins the Wheels with Silly Tech Thriller James Ponsoldt launches uneasily into mainstream studio territory with the internet thriller The...

Everybody’s Life | 2017 COLCOA French Film Festival Review

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Nicholas Bell - April 28, 2017

Au Beaune Pain: Lelouch Continues with Frivolous Comedy Spackle Somewhere along the way Palme d'Or and Oscar winning auteur Claude Lelouch (1966’s A Man and...

Rupture | Review

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Nicholas Bell - April 27, 2017

Walking into Spiderwebs: Shainberg Returns with Characterless Genre Effort A decade after the somewhat unwarranted critical drubbing of Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus...

Criterion Collection: Rumble Fish | Blu-ray Review

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Nicholas Bell - April 25, 2017

The 1980s began roughly for Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most lionized American auteurs ever, whose streak of the 1970s was an unmitigated...

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Breaking

TheyDream | Review

Oscar Aitchison - November 9, 2026

The Devils (1971) | Review

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Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Film Festivals November 8, 2026 0

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.